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From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: compuserve
Message-ID: <1991May21.165458.7441@sci34hub.sci.com>
Date: 21 May 91 16:54:58 GMT
References: <1991May16.211344.16328@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <1991May17.131622.16043@oar.net>
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Technology, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
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In article <1991May17.131622.16043@oar.net> karl.kleinpaste@osc.edu writes:
>eckert@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de writes:
>   How did you guess people could be interested in this,

>No guessing involved; the two most common questions I get about CServe
>are "how do I address a subscriber" and "can I telnet there?"

>   and so why isn't compuserv interested in this

>I don't know.  For one thing, though, their hosts don't speak IP.

Compuserve likes to bill for the use of their systems; billing people
who telnet in would be very difficult. They do very little for "free";
I use quotes since the things that CIS doesn't directly bill for, you
are still paying TYMNET or long distance charges for.

If CIS could see money in telnet/ftp connections, it'd already be done.


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